Daily Archives: 06/11/2020

Derivatives Exchanges Prepare to Start Trading ETH from Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract

The FTX cryptocurrency derivatives exchange has expressed its readiness to place tokenized ETH based on the Beacon Chain (BETH) signal chain blocked in the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract. On November 4, the developers of Ethereum 2.0 presented a tool for creating an ETH 2.0 deposit contract, which will allow sending Ether from Ethereum 1.0 to Ethereum 2.0. According to Etherscan, to date, the contract already contains more than 19,600 ETH worth $ 7.9 million. The…

Blockstream Developers Introduce New Multisignature Option for Bitcoin

Bitcoin is gearing up to roll out support for Taproot privacy technology and Schnorr signatures. Blockstream developers have introduced a new version of MuSig2 multisignature transactions. In a blog post, developers Jonas Nick and Tim Ruffing have proposed a new MuSig2 multisignature transaction scheme. It should reduce the technical complexity of multi-signature transactions while maintaining the privacy of the parties to the transaction. The proposed multisignature scheme takes the best from the previous methods. The…